A well-known British artist is exhibiting collage portraits of President Bush and Paris Hilton he made out of porn magazine images.
Jonathan Yeo's portrait of Hilton was bought by artist Damien Hirst ahead of Thursday's show opening, said Lazarides Gallery spokeswoman Elizabeth Barrett, who didn't know the sale price.
Yeo has painted portraits of Tony Blair, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Rupert Murdoch and Prince Philip.
He's definitely downsizing for the likes of this skank biscuit.
He got the idea for the collages following the cancellation of a commission by the White House to paint Bush in 2004. He made the portrait, anyway, but in the form of a collage using pieces of pornographic magazines.
Barrett said posters of the Hilton portrait, titled "Paris, 2008," will be sold for $20 each at the gallery.
That's about $19.95 too much.
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